Recent reviews by Niriw

Nice short game, AI is easy to trick, but mechanics and narrative make this quite a fun experience.

Can't really recommend the game, it falls short on many of its objectives. Let's talk about the good first. All the classes have fairly different playstyles, the co-op factor is a big plus, UI is very clean and easy to read, and in terms of aesthetic, it looks pretty good for a pixel based game.

Now the bad. Biggest issue, gameplay gets repetitive very fast, you will be on the third floor and already finding that you are not doing anything different. There's low enemy variation, light melee, heavy melee, ranger, and mages; they slowly become more powerful and get a few extra tricks, but the AI and basic strategy remains the same, you feel you are fighting the same enemies all throughout the game. Tons of exploration, which normally is a good thing for this kind of games, the problem is, exploration is almost mandatory (will come back later to this), you need to find every piece of gold and upgrade that you can in order to not get outscaled by your enemies. If you don't properly collect as much as you can, you will eventually not deal enough damage or have enough hp/def to resist more than a hit or two. Insta death traps and laughable traps, there are traps that will 1 or 2 shot you no matter how much hp you have, and the other traps you can just face tank them all day, there's no middle ground or proper scaling on these.

Now the worst. If you want to get the proper ending, you HAVE to find all non-easter egg secrets, otherwise, right at the end, with no warning at all, you lose by not being able to escape the crumbling castle . Character progression is awful, if you don't have enough gold, you will be hardstuck eventually and lose all your lives; if you have too much gold, you just spam your basic attack followed by your best skill and just plow through your enemies. The final boss, if you have the proper skills and traits leveled up, you just kill it, if not, it's a grindfest and will take you forever.

All in all, it's not a bad game by itself, it's fun for a little bit, it's just very disappointing, it could be so much better with a little bit of extra things added or changed. If you like the genre, and don't mind repetitive gameplay, it's fine, or if you have a few hours to burn with a group of friends.

Awful game, less than 2 hours of total "game", I wanted to quit 15 minutes in, but went through with it thinking it might pick up later (never did). Eventually I reached the "ending", which is literally not an ending, just a cliffhanger of what is obviously them running out of budget.

Backgrounds and world are beautiful, but the character models don't fit into it, they are widly out of place.

The worst of it all was, from the 2 hours you will play this, no joking, around 1 hour and 30 minutes will be loading screens and waiting for your snail of a character to finish moving or interact with an object.

Can't recommend, not even on sale. If you got it as a gift, just put it at the very bottom of your games to play.

The best FPS I've ever played, sadly hirez sucks :/